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CLOTHES POUNDBRQ i Patented Jan. 12, l886.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL O. HILL, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, AND HEMAN D. OROOKER, OF BATTLECREEK, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,379, dated January12, 1886.

Application filed January 24,1884. Serial No. 118,557. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL O. HILL and HEMAN D. ORooKER, citizens ofthe United States, residing, respectively, at Richmond, in the county ofWayne and State of Indiana, and at Battle Creek, in the county ofCalhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes- Pounders, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to that class of washers in which the water isforced through and into the clothing by pressure.

In the drawings which accompany this specification and form a partthereof, Figure 1 is a vertical section of our improved washer. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the same.

A represents the main body of our improved clothes-pounder, the sameconsisting of a conical case provided at its upper end with a socket, t,depending into the interior thereof, said socket being for the receptionof a suitable handle, h. 1) represents a concave plate fitting withinthe case Aat asuitable distance above its base, the same being providedwith two or more openings, n, at equidistant points from its center, thesocket t rising from the plate b at about the point where, such openingsare formed. Secured at its upper edge to the plate I), and projecting orinclining downward or inward therefrom, is a rim, 0, which extendsnearly to a line with the plane of the base of the casing. Within thecircumference of the rim 0 is constructed a funnelor conical-shaped cup,d, forming a chamber or space, m, said cup being secured or attached atits upper edge to the plate 1). Near the upper end of the body or casingA, and on the outer surface thereof, semicircular ears 6 are attached,the same acting to partially inclose the openings 9 in said body. Thatportion of the body within, above the plate I), forms an air-chamber, j,in the walls of which the above-mentioned openings 9 are formed, 5 thesaid plate 12, which constitutes the bottom of such air-chamber, beingprovided with the openings n. These openings allow the air in the spaceformed by rim 0 to escape up into the upper air chamber mentioned as thepounder is forced into the water. In this act or operation air and waterare both forced through the openings at by the movement imparted to theimplement. The socketi being closed by the handle h, it is evident howthe cup (1 is constituted an air-chamber, as also the space k, formedbetween rim 0 and the sides of the casing, the space Z, between cup dand the rim 0, communicating with the chamber j by means of holes f inthe concave plate b. The ears 6, serve to prevent the water forced intochamber j from escaping upward.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is s In a clothes-pounder, the combination of acone-shaped case having openings in the side near its apex, and providedwith socket 'i, for the receptionof a handle, a concave plate attachedto the inner circumference of the case above its base, having openings fand n, the rim 0 and cup d, all arranged in such manner as to form theseveral spaces or chambers specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

SAMUEL G. HILL. HEMAN D. OROOKER.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. ROBBINS, W. T. DENNIS.

